blebn.
/blɛb/, U.S. /blɛb/ 1. A blister or small swelling on the skin; also a similar swelling on plants.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > blister
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water wheal1530
vesication1543
phlycten1585
psydracium1585
water bladder1587
bleb1607
phlyzacium1693
bullule1707
vesicle1799
pompholyx1808
water blister1821
blab1861
bulla1877
papulovesicle1877
vesicula1877
dermoid1897
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 410 Wingals..be little swellings like blebs or bladders, on either side the ioint.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 174 The blebs or blisters we find on the leaves of many Trees and Shrubs.
1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 228 Blebs may occur in the place of vesicles.
2. A bubble of air in water, glass, or other substance at some time fluid.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s)
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air bubble1756
air-bell1806
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sprot1846
mousse1863
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 165/2 Dancing blebs and bubbles in the water.
1717 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 447 The Lens ought to be..without Veins or Blebs.
1861 F. J. Furnivall San Graal (Roxb.) Pref. 8 A..green vessel..showing by a bleb in it that it was of glass.
3. A vesicular body.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > hollow object > bladder-like
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1775 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 15 (note) The cell-like divisions..are only a row of single blebs of pith.
1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 105 From the surface oozes out a gum in round blebs.
1880 J. E. Burton Handbk. Midwives §38. 25 The ovum, or egg, is at first a little bladder, or bleb.
4. Cytology. A protuberance on the surface of a cell.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell organelle or contents > [noun] > part of surface
desmosome1930
bleb1962
1962 Lab. Investig. 11 1012/1 Lysis of membranes, bleb formation, and disappearance of villi.
1977 Sci. Amer. May 63/1 (caption) Death of a cancer cell is indicated by the blebs, or deep folds, that have appeared on its surface membrane.
1981 Sci. Amer. Mar. 67/2 Many animal cells are capable of amoeboid motion. They flatten out and retract; they develop transitory bumps or bubbles called blebs.
1983 Environmental Res. XXXI. 343 These blebs contained cell organelles, such as mitochondria, vesicles, and ribosomes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
blebv.
1. transitive. To furnish with blebs.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > charge with air or gas to cause effervescence [verb (transitive)] > cover with bubbles
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1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 84 While big drops..bleb the withering hay with pearly gems.
2. intransitive. Of a cell: to develop a bleb or blebs. Of paint: to blister.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > actions of painting or coating materials [verb (intransitive)] > of paint: blister
bleb1973
the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell organelle or contents > [verb (intransitive)] > develop a protuberance on surface
bleb1973
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bleb, v.t. & i., to cover with blebs or bubbles; bubble. Dial.]
1973 A. K. Harris in Locomotion of Tissue Cells: Ciba Found. Symp. 1972 9 As cells respread after being detached, their margins first bleb, until ruffling gradually takes over.
1976 Nature 3 June 413/1 One of the cells did not bleb while the other seven initiated a new bleb every 30 s.
1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 24 Jan. 9/2 His Lada car was still under guarantee when he notified the suppliers that the paint was ‘blebbing’.
1983 Jrnl. Fish Dis. 6 33 The membrane facing the PV was smooth and blebbed into the PV.
Derivatives
blebbed adj.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell organelle or contents > [adjective] > of part of surface
desmosomal1917
blebbing1960
blebbed1961
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Blebbed.
1982 Exper. Cell Res. CXXXIX. 275 Actively dividing cells retained a high proportion of rounded, ruffled and blebbed cells during all phases of the cell cycle.
ˈblebbing n. the formation of a bleb; a bleb; also as adj.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell organelle or contents > [adjective] > of part of surface
desmosomal1917
blebbing1960
blebbed1961
the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell organelle or contents > [noun] > part of surface > formation of bleb
blebbing1960
1960 Sci. Amer. Jan. 134/1 Membrane-blebbing and related phenomena.
1966 Exper. Cell Res. XLI. 624 In the glutaraldehyde fixed eggs..a large number of membranous outpocketings, membrane blebbings and blister-like elevations can be observed.
1966 Exper. Cell Res. XLI. 628 Doubts..that the blebbing membranes are present all the time.
1973 A. K. Harris in Locomotion of Tissue Cells: Ciba Found. Symp. 1972 253 In the life of a given culture the majority of cells are isolated..and display vigorous blebbing activity.
1980 Jrnl. Protozool. 27 270/1 The numerous pellicular blebs over these inflated cisternae suggest that their contents may be released by blebbing.
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